Laser-produced plasmas (LPPs) engulf exotic and complex conditions ranging in
temperature, density, pressure, magnetic and electric fields, charge states, charged particle …

The development of measurement methodologies to detect and monitor nuclear-relevant
materials remains a consistent and significant interest across the nuclear energy …

Studies related to U gas-phase oxidation through plasma-and thermo-chemistry are
important for many fields, including environmental monitoring, forensic analysis, debris …

Analytical spectroscopy methods have shown many possible uses for nuclear material
diagnostics and measurements in recent studies. In particular, the application potential for …

Nuclear security is one of the defining challenges of our time. Nuclear threats range from
deliberate dispersal of radioactive material to contaminate the vital infrastructure to diversion …

Improving technologies related to the wide area environmental sampling of nuclear
materials supports the nuclear nonproliferation mission of preventing the proliferation of …

The temporal evolution of atoms and molecules in a laser-produced plasma was
investigated using optical emission spectroscopy for several metal targets (ie, Al, Ti, Fe, Zr …

Dual-comb spectroscopy (DCS) represents a novel method of using absorption
spectroscopy as a diagnostic tool for multispecies analysis of excitation temperatures and …

The early-time kinetic behavior of species in a plume produced from laser ablation of U 3 Si
2 in an environment containing 2% O 2 is characterized using time-resolved absorption …

Ultrafast laser ablation coupled with optical emission spectroscopy is currently under
development for standoff detection of elements and their isotopes for a wide range of …